PdF:SKPC007 Theory of Teaching Profession - Course Information
SKPC007 Theory of Teaching Profession
Faculty of EducationSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Eva Minaříková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PaedDr. Hana Horká, CSc. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PaedDr. Hana Horká, CSc.
Institute for Research in School Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Veličková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Institute for Research in School Education – Faculty of Education - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- School pedagogy (programme PdF, D-SKPED) (2)
- Course objectives
- The main aim is to deepen and to systematize students' understanding of the theory and research on teachers.
- Learning outcomes
- By the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- identify the main paradigms in teacher research
- identify the basic literature on teacher research
- describe a selected currently researched area in teacher research and discuss its methodological issues. - Syllabus
- approaches to teacher research in diachronic perspective
- professionalization of teaching
- professional knowledge/skills/competencies
- teacher thinking
- professional development
- pre-service and in-service teacher education
- professional vision
- teacher as a reflective practitioner
- self-efficacy
- using video in teacher education.
- Literature
- required literature
- Blömeke, S., Reinhold, P., Tulodziecki, G., Wildt, J. (Hg.) Handbuch Lehrerbildung. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 2005.
- Spilková, V., Vašutová, J. a kol. Učitelská profese v měnících se požadavcích na vzdělání. Výzkumný záměr: úvodní teoreticko-metodologická studie. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Pedagogická fakulta, 2009.
- Píšová, M. Klinický rok. Podpora procesů profesního rozvoje studentů učitelství. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2005.
- Urbánek, P. Vybrané problémy učitelské profese. Liberec: TU v Liberci, Fakulta pedagogická, 2005.
- Lankshear, C., & Knobel, M. (2004). A handbook for teacher research. McGraw-Hill Education (UK).
- Creemers, H. P. M., Kyriakides, L., & Antoniou, P. (2013). Teacher professional development for improving quality of teaching. Dordrecht: Springer.
- Janík, T., Minaříková, E., Píšová, M., Uličná, K., & Janík, M. (2016). Profesní vidění učitelů a jeho rozvíjení prostřednictvím videoklubů. Masarykova univerzita.
- Šeďová, K., Švaříček, R., Sedláček, M., & Šalamounová, Z. (2016). Jak se učitelé učí. Cestou profesního rozvoje k dialogickému vyučování. Masarykova univerzita.
- Day, C., Calderhead, J., & Denicolo, P. (2012). Research on teacher thinking: understanding professional development. London: Routledge.
- Píšová, M., Hanušová, S., Kostková, K., Janíková, V., Najvar, P., & Tůma, F. (2013). Učitel expert: jeho charakteristiky a determinanty profesního rozvoje (na pozadí výuky cizích jazyků). Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
- recommended literature
- Anderson, L. W. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Teaching and Teacher Education. Oxford : Elsevier Science Ltd, 2nd edition, 1995.
- D. J. Clandinin and J. Husu: The SAGE Handbook of Research on Teacher Education, 2017.
- Calandra, B., & Rich, P. J. (2015). Digital video for teacher education: research and practice. New York: Routledge.
- Teaching methods
- lectures, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- To critically evaluate two foreign studies from the field of teacher research (f.e. from the journal Teaching and Teacher Education) in the form of a written essay (to be discussed at the final interview)
To defend a partially realized project of teacher research (as a basis of PhD. thesis) - to be discussed at the final interview - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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